Another TankArt? What for? We've already learnt everything with the 2 first volumes! Well, don't be mistaken! The new silky cover with its wonderful colors and the new layering add to TankArt's appeal and inspiration. This volume deals with modern AFVs and you'll get plenty of stuff to love! Let's say that the more TankArts are published, the farther we get in expertise thanks to Michael Rinaldi's accuracy. And there lies all the richness of the book.

From the implicit to the explicit. Michael Rinaldi always told us that TankArt is not a recipe book. Far from this, he tells us the why before dealing with the how. Nothing changes, each model is precisely studied to find the road map that will lead us to a successful model, highly attractive. The deeper we get into TankArt, the more the implicit gives place to the explicit - each step is carefully prepared and though, making the work a lot easier. The rest is a question of technique.

And technique get more and more explicit. Michael Rinaldi is fed by modelers' comments to help us in our quest for realism, which considerably enriches the book and gives us precious information: "I now have had many new dialogues with the customers and given feeback, which is heloping to mold and shape my discussions moving forward". Morevover it is really enjoyable to note that TankArt 3 gives us a really detailed study on the tanks on which the effects applied by the author give a great variety of finishes. The book offers 6 different models: the D9R, the T-62M1, the AMX-30B, the FV221 Caernarvon, the T-72Band the MT-LB.Let's say that each chapter proposes enough to inspire you and go beyond your limits.

One chapter appears and was born, I think, from the feebacks the author has had: Combining HS and OPR. This new chapter, very welcomed, gets deeper into details. These two associated pillars, on which lie Michael Rinaldi's works, were quite implicit in the first volumes, but are here totally revealed and demonstrated for the sake of our models. Here is all the richness of TankArt. Each book precisely deals with one particular technique, born from Michael Rinaldi's philosophy and the evolution of his practice. All the sense of TankArt bears the vocation to share and educate.The chapter on pigments goes deeper into detail as well and is an essential feature of the work made on the D9R. Don't miss it!

What will make you keep that book close to you at night and mostly on your workbench is the quality of the writing. Each chapter sweats limitless energy, high reflexion and passion. But, the hurried modeler, looking for a solution for their problems is not left behind. The book has lots of small orange boxes showing tips, problems and solutions.

TankArt 3 is not only the logical volume after TankArt 1 and TankArt 2. He goes beyond the limits, pushing them with this great quality of writing, that is Michael Rinaldi's. More than before, the reader feels implicated in this book through which glows the spirit of the modelers' community. The explicit is born by this sense of sharing and expertise, and the author invites us to share his experience and to be inspired by them.
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